Hail in Kansas City

What this map shows

Every dot is a hail report logged by NOAA / NWS in the last 30 days, color-coded by stone size. Bigger dots and darker colors mean larger hail — which usually means more insurance claims and more leads to chase.

The map covers Kansas City, Overland Park, Olathe, Lee's Summit, Independence, and the KC metro on both sides of the state line.

Why 1.5" matters for roofers

For most insurance carriers, 1.5" or larger hail is the rough threshold for a full roof replacement claim. Anything smaller usually triggers a partial repair claim or gets denied outright. Knocking neighborhoods that took 1.5"+ stones — within a week or two of the storm, before competitors arrive — is the highest-yield strategy in storm restoration.

How Kansas City roofers use this

The pattern is simple:

• Check the map after every storm in your service area
• Note the ZIP codes / neighborhoods inside the strike zone
• Send knockers to those specific streets before the rest of the city saturates
• Use a CRM to track which leads accepted inspections and which closed claims

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Where this data comes from

NOAA's National Weather Service collects hail reports from trained spotters, public submissions, and 911 calls. They're published in real-time as Local Storm Reports (LSRs). RidgeLink pulls the latest reports for Kansas City directly from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's public IEM data feed.

The reports are not exhaustive — small or rural events sometimes don't get reported — but they're the most reliable public dataset for storm-restoration roofers in the United States.